Authors:John J. Bowen Jr., Patricia J. Abram, Jonathan Pow
Publisher: CEG Worldwide LLC
Keywords: management, business, wealth, class, building, world, breaking
Number of Pages: 164
Published: 2008-06-18
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0615199283
ISBN-13: 9780615199283

The financial services industry offers enormous opportunities for financial advisors who are determined to build highly profitable businesses while serving their clients well. Despite this potential, many advisors never achieve the kind of success they have always wanted. Breaking Through provides a clear road map for these financial advisors. Leveraging extensive empirical research and the authors combined decades of experience in the financial services industry; the book presents a comprehensive set of proven business-building strategies. Advisors will first learn how to build a thriving wea

Authors:Paul Boca, Jonathan P. Bowen, Jawed Siddiqi,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: new, directions, art, state, methods, formal
Number of Pages: 273
Published: 2009-12-21
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 1848827350
ISBN-13: 9781848827356

The last decade has witnessed a modest but sustained increase in researching and applying formal methods. A number of well cited success stories are now available and provide strong evidence that formal methods can be effective and deployed in industrial-scale applications. Through fundamental contributions from leading researchers, this book provides further evidence of the use of formal methods in the areas of requirements, design, modelling and implementation, verification and validation. The self-contained chapters are views from experts in these areas, providing readers with rich backgro

Authors:Robert M. Hierons, Jonathan P. Bowen, Mark Harman,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: computer, notes, lecture, science, programming, engineering, software, papers, selected, testing, methods, outcome, fortest, revised, network, formal
Number of Pages: 367
Published: 2008-05-08
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 3540789162
ISBN-13: 9783540789161

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed and peer-reviewed outcome of the Formal Methods and Testing (FORTEST) network - formed as a network established under UK EPSRC funding that investigated the relationships between formal (and semi-formal) methods and software testing - now being a subject group of two BCS Special Interest Groups: Formal Aspects of Computing Science (BCS FACS) and Special Interest Group in Software Testing (BCS SIGIST). Each of the 12 chapters in this book describes a way in which the study of formal methods and software testing can be combined in a manner that brin

Authors:Didier Bert, Jonathan P. Bowen, Steve King, Marina Wa
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: proceedings, june, lecture, notes, science, computer, finland, turku, development, specification, third, international, users, conference, formal
Number of Pages: 547
Published: 2003-08-05
List price: $104.00
ISBN-10: 3540402535
ISBN-13: 9783540402534

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference of Z and B Users, ZB 2003, held in Turku, Finland in June 2003. The 28 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The book documents the recent advances for the Z formal specification notation and for the B method, spanning the full scope from foundational, theoretical, and methodological issues to advanced applications, tools, and case studies.

Authors:Jonathan P. Bowen, Steve Dunne, Andy Galloway, Steve
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: proceedings, september, lecture, notes, science, computer, august, york, development, specification, first, international, users, conference, formal
Number of Pages: 510
Published: 2000-10-02
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 3540679448
ISBN-13: 9783540679448

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference of B and Z Users, ZB 2000, held in York, UK in August/September 2000.The 25 revised full papers presented together with four invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The book documents the recent advances for the Z formal specification notion and for the B method; the full scope, ranging from foundational and theoretical issues to advanced applications, tools, and case studies, is covered.

Authors:James Bowen, Margarita Bowen,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: heritage, science, history, reef, barrier
Number of Pages: 474
Published: 2003-01-13
List price: $73.00
ISBN-10: 0521824303
ISBN-13: 9780521824309

One of the world’s natural wonders, the Great Barrier Reef stretches more than 2000 kilometers in a maze of coral reefs along Australia’s northeastern coastline. Until now, no biographer has brought the fascinating story behind its mystique into public view. This book provides a comprehensive cultural and ecological history of European impact on the reef, from early voyages of discovery to the most recent developments in reef science and management.

Author: R. Bowen
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: second, groundwater
Number of Pages: 444
Published: 1986-07-31
List price: $299.00
ISBN-10: 0853344140
ISBN-13: 9780853344148